Hi,
The Ant in CVS is 1.5alpha, from Sept 17th. It includes support for the unified
"file" attribute, replacing "zipfile", "warfile", "tarfile", etc. This has been
used in files like apps/demos/build.xml
<zip file="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-bin.zip"
..
So I have two questions:
1) Are we going to continue to use unreleased 1.5 features, or standardize on
1.4.1?
2) If we standardize on 1.4.1, do we keep it in CVS or get users to download it?
My personal preferences:
1) Standardize on 1.4.1, since:
- there's nothing in 1.5 we particularly need (I think?)
- *.sh and *.bat files are another point of failure (DOS linefeeds, etc),
limit building to specific platforms, and are not usable for projects within
cornerstone's burgeoning apps/ directory.
2) Get users to download it. Avalon's target audience is "developers". By now,
I'd hope that most developers have Ant installed.
That would also get us off Sam Ruby's Gump whinge list:
"Despite the relatively recent release of Ant, most Avalon projects will not
build with that version of Ant. They require a small but important change in
the jar task. Of course, they build with the version of Ant checked into
their respective cvs's, but the question is: do we really want or need a
separate version of Ant for every component?"
-- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-general&m=100082273102665&w=2
--Jeff
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